get-childitem

All my files are in specific folders: 17\1\1\PRO 17\1\2\PRO 17\2\1\PRO xx\xx\xx\PRO 17 is the year (so 18 for next year etc) the first 1 is the folder specifying the case number (can be up to 100). The second 1 is the sub parts on the case number. That last 1 has a folder PRO in it where all data resides. We need to move these files, but the files need to stay inside their respective "PRO" folders. For example: a file in 17\1\1\pro\xxx\www\ needs to go to 17\1\1\pro\movies a file in 17\2\2\pro\xxdfsdf\eeee\ needs to go to 17\2\2\pro\movies . The movies folder should get created if there are

This completes in 2.3 minutes on LOCALSERVER: A: measure-command {$x = invoke-command {gci -recurse "C:\"}} This completes in 38.4 minutes on LOCALSERVER: B: measure-command {$x = invoke-command -comp LOCALSERVER {gci -recurse "C:\"}} Why is B so much slower? Is it because the "output is being serialized to XML and then reconstituted into objects again", as explained here , with B but not A? Or is something else going on? LOCALSERVER runs Windows 2008R2 with PS v3. In both cases $x.count is 98973. I was wondering about changing an existing script to use PSRemoting for file searches on remote

I'm writing a PowerShell script to make several directories and copy a bunch of files together to "compile" some technical documentation. I'd like to generate a manifest of the files and directories as part of the readme file, and I'd like PowerShell to do this, since I'm already working in PowerShell to do the "compiling". I've done some searching already, and it seems that I need to use the cmdlet "Get-ChildItem", but it's giving me too much data, and I'm not clear on how to format and prune out what I don't want to get my desired results. I would like an output similar to this: Directory

EDIT Hoping here to clarify my convoluted and misleading question... based on my mistaken assumption that -file accepts inputs. Thanks for setting me straight and pointing out that it's just a switch parameter; the inputs in my example actually get passed to -path. Sounds like that may be the fastest purely powershell way to search for multiple file types, since -filter accepts only a single input and -include is slower. The get-childItem documentation says "Filters are more efficient than other parameters, because the provider applies them when retrieving the objects, rather than having

I want to select the second/third/forth object of a Get-ChildItem statement in my PowerShell script. This gives me the first: $first = Get-ChildItem -Path $dir | Sort-Object CreationTime -Descending | Select-Object -First 1 This gives me the first three: $latest = Get-ChildItem -Path $dir | Sort-Object CreationTime -Descending | Select-Object -First 3 I would like to get the second, or the third, or the fourth. (NOT the first two and so on). Is there a way? For selecting the n-th element skip over the first n-1 elements: $third = Get-ChildItem -Path $dir | Sort-Object CreationTime -Descending

I have a folder on a server called MyFolder. There are additional folders called MyFolder.1, MyFolder.2, MyFolder.3 etc. If I run: gci C:\Sample | ? { $_.Name -like "MyFolder.*" } I get the expected output: Directory: C:\Sample Mode LastWriteTime Length Name ---- ------------- ------ ---- d---- 16/10/2012 12:16 MyFolder.1 d---- 16/10/2012 12:16 MyFolder.2 d---- 16/10/2012 12:16 MyFolder.3 However if I run: gci C:\Sample -Filter "MyFolder.*" I get: Directory: C:\Sample Mode LastWriteTime Length Name ---- ------------- ------ ---- d---- 16/10/2012 12:16 MyFolder d---- 16/10/2012 12:16 MyFolder.1

I would like to be able to select a remote folder and scan it recursively for all file extensions. For each extension discovered, I would need a total count and well as the sum for individual file types. I've found a script here that works for a single file extension using the -include switch, but rather than running the script scores of times, it would be nice to simply run once and collect all extensions. $hostname=hostname $directory = "D:\foo" $FolderItems = Get-ChildItem $directory -recurse -Include *.txt $Measurement = $FolderItems | Measure-Object -property length -sum $colitems =